So, does anyone know (I mean really know, as in the biomechanics) how the body tells the difference between the fat you are eating, versus the fat stored in your body? Or can it tell at all? If the ketostix are purple, what's to say that those ketones aren't from the butter you had at lunch? In most cases, the body would far prefer to burn consumed fuel over its precious reserves.

Thanks in advance.

Ketosis just means that you are burning more fat than carbohydrates. The more ketone bodies that are deteched in the urine, the more net fat-burning over carb-burning. The body creates ketone bodies just as fast from current consumption as from storied fat, so there's no way of telling the body which fat to burn first, it will decide for itself.

J

Thanks, J. That's kinda as I suspected.

I was having trouble losing and I think it was because all the fat added WAY to many calories to my daily plan.